Messages in this thread | | | From | Markus Hofmann <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.2 - System clock runs too fast | Date | Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:13:37 +0100 |
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Hello John
Thank you for your patch. Yesterday I had the time to use it. And now my time runs normal!!
Thanks regards Markus
Am Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2004 19:36 schrieb john stultz: > On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 01:07, Markus Hofmann wrote: > > Thank you for answering. > > In the meantime I heard that apm could cause this problem. I tested this > > by compiling acpi. The result was that the clock runs normal with acpi. > > But I want to use apm. So I removed the acpi and now the system clock is > > too slow with only apm. > > > > I think this is a very curious thing! :-( > > Indeed, normally its ACPI that causes more problems. That's a new one. > > I'd be curious how this drift changes using the attached patch. > > thanks > -john > > ===== arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c 1.35 vs edited ===== > --- 1.35/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c Wed Jan 7 00:31:11 2004 > +++ edited/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c Tue Jan 20 13:22:54 2004 > @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ > delta += delay_at_last_interrupt; > lost = delta/(1000000/HZ); > delay = delta%(1000000/HZ); > - if (lost >= 2) { > + if (0 && (lost >= 2)) { > jiffies_64 += lost-1; > > /* sanity check to ensure we're not always losing ticks */ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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